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As I understand that the 200K already registered Test and Go tourists can enter as before. Just have to do an additional PCR test on the 7th day. Until then, they had already been tested twice (before departure and upon arrival). Then why is the test and go program stopped? But let the 200K in as before in the near future. It doesn't make sense to stop or interrupt the program. Surely there wouldn't be millions of additional tourists either. But as before, around 150K per month. With a positive rate of 0.1 to 0.2 that would be around 150 tradable cases, as Dr. Kiatphoom Wongjarit himself has confirmed. I don't understand the logic of suspending the program.

That is the dilemma. If doctors rule in their limited world of thought, then one should completely isolate the population and lock everyone up. Then you would actually have fewer infections. And the fear argument works pretty well at the beginning: "If you don't do what we say, you will die". And on the other hand there is the population, many of whom are not in a position to survive existentially long isolation measures economically. An intelligent balance of interests must be found so that the doctors' measures can be accepted. This is where the task of politics and the national leadership begins. And so far that has not worked well here if one works primarily with army-like orders and punishments instead of compromises. And when the promised light fails to come at the end of the tunnel, resistance and anger arise. Many have so far made economic and social sacrifices in the hope of getting their normal life back. But after 21 months full of restrictions, the point has been reached for many where many see that their previous sacrifices have been in vain and realize that medicine and politics are actually powerless against the virus. The population is not as stupid as the government believes with its kindergarten mentality.

Parties + Booze + gambling + girls = hedonistic lifestyle. Until the money runs out. Then follow debts + depression + loneliness + social misery. There are many who get broke this way if they don't get home in time.

With all the uncertainty and constant last minute changes, potential Thailand visitors cannot plan. It's not just about the Thai pass, but to organize everything beforehand. Visa, flight, hotel, insurance, PCR test before departure, etc. All those who booked through Bangkok and did not apply for their TP yesterday at the last second have to cancel everything if they do not want to go to 7-10 days hotel jail. Wouldn't it have been enough to let the TP program continue to run and also to install the test for everyone on the 7th day on top? What is the benefit for 200,000 tourists doing it this way and not for all who want to come later? Now the chaos and the damage is greater than the benefit if you cut the only - to some extent - attractive way for vacation in Thailand.

I know 99% down since 2019 Now the try to kill the last 1%

R.I.P. Thai Tourism

You make simply an appointment with a thai doctor from a big hospital. Then you have a medical reason. Easy.

No. I belief they all want to go on holiday until 4 January. That could be the reason for the quick decision. Furthermore I guess the leaders can not read any data from worldwide medical and statistical sources coz they all writen in English language.

Thus the revival of tourism is officially buried. Now again with 7-10 days of hotel prison. Not many will come. We already had the whole theater in May / June. Result: Didn't bring anything. And now this ad hoc out of my gut again I'm afraid decision. Won't bring anything either, at best a delay. The big wave doesn't come in February, but then in March.

What a mess and (information) mismanagement.

Btw According to the old constitution, overthrowing a government was punishable with the death penalty.

The futsal court project about a decade ago. The pace of prosecution for corruption cases is truly unique here. 10 years. And during that time everyone was free on bail. The Pheu Thai MP and 86 other individuals.... Looting the state coffers and stealing from the people is apparently a national sport here.

Thailand’s narcotics trade is valued at 2.2 trillion baht in 2020. It is a fourfold increase from 2014 since Prayut’s government seized power. One Business which is actually showing strong growth under his government oversight. 400% increase in drugs and 99% decrease in tourism. The government and law enforcement agencies must have slept properly for the past 6 years.

555. Then he should say it differently. But the generalization is bad. For a minister of state or self-appointed PM successor, there is diplomatic delicacy a quality feature. When a bar chair neighbor in a gloomy Pattaya pub says: All Chinese like poop on the street, I can live with it. But not when a minister says so.

They can do what they want. But all the restriction measures will be of no use. When will the politicians finally admit that they are powerless against the virus? It is impossible to completely isolate a population to 100% and to reduce all contacts with other people to zero. The majority of people have to go out to shop and have to go out to work. The belief that the official measures bring a lot gradually should, after 21 months of experimenting, be buried.

Me too. Since 21 months I have been through everything that various politicians and scientists see or have viewed as good measures. Lockdown, masks, self-isolation, social distance, disinfecting hands, vaccination, alcohol bans, PCR tests, quarantine, travel bans, lots of QR codes, paperwork and whatever else. Now we're back to the beginning and the theater starts all over again. For me personally it is becoming clearer that we have to live with the virus and that the previous measures have not brought us much. And the politicians with all their promises and restrictions are ultimately almost powerless. And the belief that we as humans can somehow control or even control the spread of the virus persists. Ultimately, everyone is responsible for themselves and should decide for themselves how to deal with the risk. And if you disregard your own fate, it is still the case that in 2020 the number of births exceeded the number of deaths by 94,859,658.

I will bite. Generalizations are always wrong when there are exceptions. Especially if a self-proclaiming PM candidate is incapable of differentiating and essentially only builds up enemy picture politics. Btw. The real Thai shower champions I know are the girls in the Soapys and Massage Parlors. If they have 5 customers a day, they shower at least 10 times (before and after with each costumer) a day.

The horror reports never ends today. First omicron in Thailand and now that. Scary

He mentioned something called BCG - The Thai media let that slip by without finding out what he meant. I think the TAT is reading along here. Already to see that the thoughts on modern tourism marketing find their way. I suspect the TAT discovered the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) growth-share matrix as a strategic planning tool. As long as the result is something useful for Thai tourism, it should be fine with me.

As crazy as it sounds we can't get rid of the virus. If you then have the choice of the inevitable infection, it is better to infect humanity with a mild C19 variant than with a more aggressive C19 variant. It is time that politicians and scientists finally admit that we as humanity are largely powerless. Well after 3 months the third injection, new lockdowns and contact bans, then again a new variant and again the 4th injection, quarantine, home office, school closure. How long should it go on like this?

Probably not. I had the pleasure on May 6th. The quarantine was raised from 10 to 14 days again. Unfortunately, I was a day late. I had to book an additional 4 days of quarantine, at that time still with COE. Good luck for you.

I understand the approach. Has been practiced since March 2020. The number of infections is not so decisive. In addition to all the measurement errors (undetected infections, delayed case reports and number of tests), the excess mortality rates for each C 19 variant are much more decisive. If you then believe science, Omikron is more contagious, but with much milder disease processes and lower death rates. But at all, science is still in the dark. It can therefore be doubted whether additional isolation and restriction measures make sense at all, in the case of a highly contagious C 19 variant that anyway eats past barriers built up by people. The recent past has clearly refuted the belief that mankind can have a decisive influence on the path of the spread of infection.

200 years ago, statistically speaking, the average life expectancy was 35.6 years for men and 38.4 years for women. Nature is now fighting back with a little virus. The human being as skin cancer of the earth. Overpopulation, extinction of species, filthy seas, filthy air, deforestation, melting of the polar ice caps, increase in climatic catastrophes The virus will do its job whether the human is vaccinating or isolating. So enjoy every day of life and finally open the damn go-go bars.

Since March 2020, all the lockdown measures and restrictions have shown that the virus cannot be stopped with the new waves that keep appearing, worldwide. The only thing that has been achieved at best is a time lag. Perhaps a rethink now makes sense and mankind should now - to all appearances - 'sweat out' the milder virus variant. Better to end with horror than horror without end.

True. You found a newer source (krungsri). The bed capacity in 2019 was around 800,000. (The net effect of this is an increase national supply of hotel rooms from 540,088 in 2013 to 784,118 in 2019, or average annual growth of 6.5%) I tried to check/ proof the mentioned hotel occupancy rate of 12% over the whole year of 2021. (They also predicted that Thai hotel occupancy would be 34% compared to this year's dismal 12%) And now I doubt this 12%, at all much more! The discrepancy in bed capacity can already be found in the basic data between the national statistics office and the KrungSri source.